Quickly find uninstall GUID of product in Programs and Features

Quickly find uninstall GUID of product in Programs and Features

October 9, 2017

Ever get tired of digging through the registry HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall and HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall keys searching for a product? Luckily, there's a much faster way to find the GUID, simply run the following command--in this case, we are searching for the Symantec uninstall string:

wmic product get | findstr Symantec

Though the formatting of the result is off, it's still quite easy to locate the GUID and proceed to uninstall the product like so:

msiexec /x {guid}
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